Pierre A. Deymier is a researcher in phononics,[1] acoustic metamaterial,[1] and materials science.
He is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and previously department head at the University of Arizona.
[2] He holds appointments with the applied mathematics graduate interdisciplinary program,[3] BIO5 institute, and School of Sustainable Engineered Systems at the University of Arizona.
More recently, he has proposed a novel approach akin to quantum computing using the properties of phonons rather than qubits, which he has dubbed "phi-bits" or "phase-bits".
[citation needed] He became assistant professor of materials science & engineering at the University of Arizona in 1985.